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The purpose of the study is to learn about safety, how the body processes marstacimab and how it works in patients with severe hemophilia A without inhibitors. Hemophilia A is rare bleeding disorder where the blood doesn't clot normally. This causes a person to bleed a lot, even from a small cut. These patients who are on emicizumab medicine for routine prophylaxis for at least 6 months, and desire to switch to marstacimab medicine. Inhibitors are antibodies that the immune system develops because it sees the infused clotting factor as a foreign substance that needs to be destroyed. Antibodies are proteins that eat up the activated factor before it has time to stop the bleeding. Prophylaxis are preventive medicines. This study is seeking for participants: * with severe Hemophilia A withouth inhibitors who are on emicizumab treatment for at least 6 months. * must be 12 to less than 75 years old * must have a body weight of at least 35 kilograms. The results from this study will serve as a guide to doctors and their hemophilia A patients who will change their medicines in the real-world clinical setting. Patients who can take part in the study will receive marstacimab medicine as weekly injections under the skin of 150 milligrams for 4 months. Study treatment with marstacimab will be initiated no earlier than 14 days after last dose of emicizumab. The study can last up to 6 months. The sponsor will provide marstacimab. Patients will continue their usual treatment with the infused clotting factor for their bleeds when taking part in the study. Roll-over into an optional study treatment extension period will be available to participants who wish to continue prophylaxis with marstacimab in countries where it is not commercially available.
Hemophilia A (HA) is a genetic bleeding disorder resulting from a deficiency or absence of factor VIII (FVIII), which is necessary in the clotting process. This disorder occurs mostly in males and in severe cases causes frequent bleeding episodes in joints and muscles which can lead to progressive damage that affects mobility and quality of life. Prophylactic FVIII administered intravenously every other day has been the standard of care treatment for HA for the past few decades. Sports and physical activity are generally encouraged in patients with hemophilia on appropriate prophylactic treatment to increase strength, prevent or decrease obesity, accrue and maintain bone density and encourage normal socialization. To ensure safety with participation in sports in persons with hemophilia A (PWHA), timing of FVIII administration is often adjusted to maximize FVIII at the time of sports. The exact factor level that is needed to safely participate in sports and minimize bleeding risk is not yet known. Based on clinical practice, infusion of FVIII to near the lower limit of normal right before participation in sports generally works to prevent bleeding. The study is looking at how well the newly approved medication Emicizumab works compared to Factor VIII to prevent bleeding in patients with Hemophilia A who play sports. The study will enroll children and adolescents who are already on Emicizumab or Factor VIII who are currently playing sports.
This is a prospective, randomized control trial in which each patient will be randomly assigned to receive either extended half-life factor VIII based replacement therapy or non-FVIII based replacement therapy, which are both standard of care treatment for persons with Hemophilia A.
The investigators propose to study longitudinal joint and bone density changes in patients with severe Hemophilia A. Per current standard of care, most patients are on prophylactic FVIII replacement therapy intravenously several times weekly with a goal of keeping the trough \>1% FVIII. Recent phase 3 data suggest superior bleed protection with emicizumab prophylaxis every 1-2 weeks. It is the purpose of this study to longitudinally assess joint health and bone density over 3 years and to compare the effect of routine factor VIII prophylaxis with emicizumab prophylaxis.
Recombinant factor VIII for the prevention of bleeding in patients with severe haemophilia A undergoing major surgery while receiving emicizumab prophylaxis